Engine failure caused Nigeria air crash last month: report

Dual engine failure caused the crash of a Nigerian aircraft that killed at least 159 people last month in the country's largest city of Lagos, a preliminary official report said Thursday.

The probe into the June 3 Dana Air crash traced the cause "to the loss of two engines and non-functionality of the throttles on final descent from Abuja to Lagos," the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) report said.